
Sergei Baltacha ??? Many like me look back to the USSR and think: We were happy
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/sergei-baltacha-many-like-me-look-back-to-the-ussr-and-think-we-were-happy-j3hht3zg6
When Sergei Baltacha was growing up in the old Soviet Union everything to him seemed idyllic: his home, his family, his friends, his school. Home was Mariupol ??? once known as Zhdanov ??? the city which sits by the Sea of Azov and famously exported its steel, iron ore and copious grains to elsewhere be